advertisement

Log Out

Literature

M. Night Shyamalan’s latest plot twist? Teaming with Nicholas Sparks on a novel and upcoming film

By ALICIA RANCILIO
Oct 24, 2025 7:32 am - Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan found an interesting opportunity to collaborate on a new supernatural romance novel called “Remain” with Nicholas Sparks. Yes, that Nicholas Sparks — king of romantic dramas.
Mayci Neeley’s memoir is one jaw-dropping revelation after the next

By Jenny Rogers
Oct 22, 2025 7:39 am - “Are you OK?” I am not. I’m reading “Told You So,” the debut memoir by Mayci Neeley, one of the stars of the utterly fascinating series “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.” Neeley, 30, chronicles her life before reality TV fame in jaw-dropping detail.
Pixar filmmaker Alan Barillaro brings world-class storytelling lessons to Geneva

By Shaw Local News Network
Oct 15, 2025 2:31 pm - Alan Barillaro, the Academy Award-winning Pixar filmmaker behind the short “Piper” and animator on “The Incredibles” and “WALL-E,” is bringing his celebrated storytelling to Geneva with the launch of his new middle-grade novel “Bunns Rabbit.”
Oprah Winfrey picks Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Guardian and a Thief’ for book club

By HILLEL ITALIE
Oct 14, 2025 7:28 am - Megha Majumdar’s “A Guardian and a Thief,” already a finalist for the National Book Award and Kirkus Prize, is now Oprah Winfrey’s book club pick.
What made John Candy great? A new book is a welcome reminder.

By Geoff Edgers
Oct 14, 2025 7:13 am - Whether he was in a goofy skit with his pals or stuck in one of Hollywood’s awful ideas, John Candy always delivered. In “John Candy: A Life in Comedy,” author Paul Myers delves into a comic actor who has been largely forgotten since his death, at just 43, in 1994.
Johnny Cash’s son revisits his father’s ‘Lyrics and Legacy’ with Terri Hemmert on Oct. 30

By Desiree Chen, Elmhurst University
Oct 14, 2025 12:25 am - On Oct. 30, producer, singer-songwriter and author John Carter Cash will join Chicago radio legend Terri Hemmert and longtime Johnny Cash chronicler Mark Stielper for “Johnny Cash: Lyrics and Legacy.”
Arlington Heights library transforms for Met Gala-inspired ‘One Book, One Gala’

Submitted by Arlington Heights Memorial Library
Oct 08, 2025 5:55 pm - The Arlington Heights Memorial Library hosted a "One Book, One Gala" event inspired by the Met Gala to celebrate this year's "One Book, One Village" selection, "The Stolen Queen" by Fiona Davis.
Friends of the Arlington Heights Memorial Library to host Fall Book Sale Nov. 7-9

Submitted by Michael Cortopassi
Oct 07, 2025 10:46 pm - The Friends of the Arlington Heights Memorial Library will be holding their Fall Used Book Sale on Friday to Sunday, Nov. 7-9.
This writer visited 21 graveyards — and dug up some deep truths

By Alma Katsu
Oct 07, 2025 7:08 am - I bet I know what you’re thinking: Essays about cemeteries? It would be a mistake, however, to write off Mariana Enriquez’s “Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave.”
A distinctive Irish novelist returns with ‘The City Changes Its Face’

By Abhrajyoti Chakraborty
Oct 07, 2025 6:58 am - Early in “The City Changes Its Face,” Eimear McBride’s messier follow-up to “The Lesser Bohemians,” we learn that Eily and Stephen have been living together for more than a year. Stephen has reconnected with his daughter and finished writing and directing an autobiographical film, based on his traumatic 20s. Eily, who is supposed to be in her third year of drama school, is skipping all her classes. Why?

Showing 51-60 of 5,843 previous next